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This-essay is a9707191.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %JUDGEMENTS CONDEMNATIONS SANCTIONS PUNISHMENTS 970719 See the preceding essays for background information. Each Christian community is bound to have occasions when one or more members of the community willfully and perhaps repeatedly behaves in ways which the community regards as seriously alienative and immoral. The dilemma which the community then faces is to discern how the community should respond to such an individual's behavior, so as to reduce overall alienation in keeping with its fundamental principles of morality. An alienative/immoral communal response to an individual's alienative/immoral behavior --- is dysfunctional and not worthy of respect. The communal dilemma is especially great if the community is internally in conflict about its prescriptions, proscriptions and principles of morality --- and the conflict is generating alienation in anticipation of judicial cases which may be initiated. Especially difficult to deal with are cases where there are members of the community who are of the conviction that some other member(s) of the community has (have) committed acts which should be punished by the community --- condemning, rejecting, excommunicating, and/or ejecting the accused person(s) from the community. Such a communal response of course entails alienation which may be difficult to justify in terms of fundamental principles of Christian morality. Are there prescriptions and/or proscriptions which should unconditionally be enforced? If so, how can we be sure that enforcing them is not idolatrous? And/or in violation of fundamental principles of Christian morality? Can a community have communal integrity if in the process of enforcing the fundamental principles of morality it violates those principles and engenders increasing alienation? It may be helpful for communities to articulate the rights of the communities and its individual members and state what fundamental principles of morality are to prevail when conflicts occur between members and the community as a whole. Clearly working for balance between individual and communal rights is essential to personal and communal integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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